Selkirkiella

Selkirkiella is a genus of South American comb-footed spiders that was first described by Lucien Berland in 1924.[2] Originally placed with the Araneidae,[2] it was transferred to the comb-footed spiders in 1972.[3]

Selkirkiella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Selkirkiella
Berland, 1924[1]
Type species
S. alboguttata
Berland, 1924
Species

8, see text

Species

As of June 2020 it contains eight species, found in Chile, Argentina, and on the Falkland Islands:[1]

In synonymy:

  • S. portazuelo (Levi, 1967) = Selkirkiella alboguttata Berland, 1924
  • S. recurvata (Tullgren, 1901) = Selkirkiella ventrosa (Nicolet, 1849)
  • S. transversa (Nicolet, 1849) = Selkirkiella purpurea (Nicolet, 1849)
  • S. triangulifer (Simon, 1902) = Selkirkiella ventrosa (Nicolet, 1849)

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Selkirkiella Berland, 1924". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  2. Berland, L. (1924), "Araignées de l'ile de Pàques et des iles Juan Fernandez", The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island
  3. Levi, H. W. (1972). "Taxonomic-nomenclatural notes on misplaced theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with observations on Anelosimus". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 91: 536.

Further reading
  • Agnarsson, I. (2004). "Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (4): 447–626.
  • Levi, H. W. (1967). "The theridiid spider fauna of Chile". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 136: 1–20.
  • Levi, H. W. (1963). "The American spiders of the genus Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 82: 30–48.
  • Nicolet, H. (1849), "Aracnidos", in Gay, C. (ed.), Historia física y política de Chile
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